[Koha-devel] Default search options in the OPAC

[Marc Véron]

Hi all,

I agree with Katrin that we should have the possibility to localize the 
HTML system preferences.

Marc



Am 08.10.2012 13:42, schrieb Fischer, Katrin:
> Hi all,
>
> I am sorry, but there is a big problem with that solution as suggested.
The search options won't be translatable and only available in one 
language at a time.
I think what we really need is a way to have all the HTML system 
preferences in an editor
like we have for news that supports content for multiple languages.
>
> Katrin
>
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: koha-devel-bounces at lists.koha-community.org [mailto:koha-devel-
>> bounces at lists.koha-community.org] On Behalf Of Kyle Hall
>> Sent: Monday, October 08, 2012 1:38 PM
>> To: Magnus Enger
>> Cc: koha-devel at lists.koha-community.org
>> Subject: Re: [Koha-devel] Default search options in the OPAC
>>
>> I agree, this seems like a good option. The only thing I could imagine
>> that would make it better would be to add a new section under
>> administration to define these choices so we don't require librarians to
>> be messing around with html. Perhaps I'm trying to make it overly
>> complicated though ; )
>>
>> Kyle
>>
>> http://www.kylehall.info
>> ByWater Solutions ( http://bywatersolutions.com ) Meadville Public
>> Library ( http://www.meadvillelibrary.org ) Crawford County Federated
>> Library System ( http://www.ccfls.org ) Mill Run Technology Solutions (
>> http://millruntech.com )
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Oct 8, 2012 at 3:52 AM, Magnus Enger <magnus at enger.priv.no>
>> wrote:
>>> On 18 September 2012 15:58, Owen Leonard <oleonard at myacpl.org> wrote:
>>>> We've now got two patches pending which seek to add more options to
>>>> the default OPAC search, the masthead search bar which currently
>>>> includes options for Library catalog, title, author, subject, ISBN,
>>>> series, and call number:
>>>>
>>>> Add "Phrase" Searching to OPAC Search
>>>> http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=8778
>>>>
>>>> Add accesssion [barcode] number to the drop down list in OPAC Search
>>>> http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=8302
>>>>
>>>> I'll say right out that I'm opposed to these changes, but I want to
>>>> bring it up here on the list so we can discuss.
>>>
>>> I agree that the simple search should be simple. But we could probably
>>> spend a lot of time arguing about how simple is simple enough.
>>>
>>> Seems to me that it would be better to find a way to make this easily
>>> configurable. I'd like to suggest a simple solution:
>>>
>>> In the template, we could have
>>>
>>> <select id="masthead_search" class="left" name="idx"> [%
>>> OPACSearchOptions %] </select>
>>>
>>> Then we could have a syspref called OPACSearchOptions (or something),
>>> with this initial content:
>>>
>>> <option value="">Library catalog</option> <option
>>> value="ti">Title</option> <option value="au">Author</option> <option
>>> value="su">Subject</option> <option value="nb">ISBN</option> <option
>>> value="se">Series</option> <option value="callnum">Call
>>> number</option>
>>>
>>> This would keep current behaviour, but make it easy to add or remove
>>> or re-arrange the <option> elements. And we could explain in the docs
>>> or on the wiki how the "value"s here relate to indexes defined in more
>>> or less obscure config files.
>>>
>>> Yes, it would require fiddling with HTML and Zebra (or Solr) indexes
>>> to change it. No, it would not be GUI and pretty. But it would be so
>>> simple, even I could submit a patch for it.
>>>
>>> Thoughts?
>>>
>>> Best regards,
>>> Magnus
>>> libriotech.no
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